Major vendors have been doubling down on their investment in Chromebooks, and that effort has paid off — they’ve consistently seen strong returns thanks to the platform’s wide adoption globally.

In the last few years, driven in no small part by the impact of the pandemic, cloud technology has had a profound effect on healthcare. Despite being one of the last sectors to go all-in on public cloud, the maturity of offerings seems to be finally winning the industry over, opening up significant opportunities for telemedicine and virtual care to adapt to evolving patient and workforce needs.

Hospitals and healthcare facilities can handle a variety of equipment and gadgets with the use of asset-tracking systems. However, many systems are antiquated, unstable, and prone to errors, which adds time and money to what should be a quick procedure. RFID asset tracking allows you to collect asset data in a fraction of the time it would take to locate your assets manually. RFID offers a fully automated and significantly more reliable method of tracking medical equipment.

As a healthcare organization owner, you may often deal with issues in locating the right medical equipment, whether for an emergency, regular use, or maintenance. At the same time, from overbuying assets, such as medical devices and supplies, to replacing equipment that still has life, many hospital administrators are spending more than necessary on clinical assets.

The use of technology in modern healthcare has greatly improved people’s lives. More than 1800 different types of medical devices are thought to be in use, according to data from the National Center for Biomedical Information. Asset tracking in the healthcare industry is evolving. Through 2022, the cutting-edge tools that allowed hospitals to track the whereabouts of their equipment will continue to advance.

Do you remember the classic board game where you have to go back and forth with your opponent deducing which characters on the board you’ve each selected? It’s still played by children today, and unfortunately by healthcare teams as well. Every day, healthcare teams are forced to play a game of “Guess Who?” is on-call if they do not have systems in place for role-based messaging.

Among the 12 greatest stressors in life, six revolve around healthcare issues. From loss of a loved one to pregnancy and even retirement, these events often involve interactions with healthcare services — interactions that can either add to an individual’s stress or, ideally, help alleviate it.

Healthcare around the world is constantly evolving. The amount of data being generated daily from every appointment and interaction, no matter how small or large, needs to be processed and analyzed in order to improve patient outcomes. The data must be accurate, stored, accessible and secure. Without a core infrastructure of smart IT, any outcomes are extremely challenging to generate, and data must be available in seconds for doctors to make life-saving decisions. The bottom line?